MESA, Ariz. — When Pat Venditte arrived in pro ball after pitching at Creighton, he wound up in one of the strangest showdowns in history. Venditte, who is in A’s camp as a nonroster player, is ...

Not so very long ago the Athletics signed reliever Pat Venditte to a minor-league contract. Venditte is 29 years old and has never reached the majors. So why does this low-grade transaction merit the ...

The journey that led Pat Venditte to MLB history started with a really simple thought. “It was just an idea that came from my father who thought, ‘There are switch hitters, why can’t there be switch ...

It’s been said that only the great ones cause the rules of the game to be changed. Pat Venditte isn’t a baseball immortal by any means, but the Oakland Athletics switch-pitcher did inspire the ...

Venditte had appeared in major league exhibition games for the Yankees, but never as an official invitee, and his career has thus far topped out at Triple A. On Tuesday, however, he made his first ...

OAKLAND – Pat Venditte's journey to instant celebrity took eight years of toiling in the minors, making stops at nine different hometowns – three of them abroad – and proving countless skeptics wrong.

BOSTON -- Switch-pitcher Pat Venditte made his major league debut Friday night after he was called up by the Oakland Athletics before their game against the Boston Red Sox. And that was more ...

Athletics pitcher Pat Venditte, dealing with a right shoulder strain, 80 pitches while playing catch, according to the Bay Area News Group. Venditte, an ambidextrous pitcher, threw 40 pitches ...

In this two image combination, Oakland relief pitcher Pat Venditte (29) delivers with his left and right hand to separate Boston batters June 5, 2015. Charles Krupa AP file, 2015 It’s not often that a ...